^{18 Ref} And certain of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers, were meeting together to see him, and some were saying, `What would this seed picker wish to say?' and others, `Of strange demons he doth seem to be an announcer;' because Jesus and the rising again he did proclaim to them as good news,

^{19 Ref} having also taken him, unto the Areopagus they brought `him', saying, `Are we able to know what `is' this new teaching that is spoken by thee,

^{20 Ref} for certain strange things thou dost bring to our ears? we wish, then, to know what these things would wish to be;'

^{21 Ref} and all Athenians, and the strangers sojourning, for nothing else were at leisure but to say something, and to hear some newer thing.